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02597cam a2200481 a 4500 001 A673228E2AF311DEA519F806A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20230510010042 008 960419s1996 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 96019138 020 $a 9780393039306 020 $a 0393039307 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BAKER $d NLGGC $d OCLCG $d MIU $d SILO 050 00 $a QH375 $b .D376 1996 100 1 $a Dawkins, Richard, $d 1941- 245 1 $a Climbing mount improbable / $c Richard Dawkins ; original drawings by Lalla Ward. 250 $a 1st American ed. 260 $a New York : $b Norton, $c 1996. 300 $a xii, 340 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-331) and index. 520 $a How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge, Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinist does not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a species utterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of "slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival of random variants"--a course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's great hero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with case studies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye and the lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps, Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinian ideas. 505 0 $a Facing Mount Rushmore -- Silken fetters -- Message from the mountain -- Getting off the ground -- Forty-fold path to enlightenment -- Museum of all shells - Kaleidoscopic embryos -- Pollen grains and magic bullets -- Robot repeater -- 'A garden inclosed'. 650 0 $a Natural selection. 650 0 $a Evolutionary genetics. 650 0 $a Morphogenesis. 650 17 $a Ontwikkelingsbiologie. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Natuurlijke selectie. $2 gtt 941 $a 13 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214040129.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718071804.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926071609.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605015830.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20140415011531.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OTAX626 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OAAX516 $d 20090806113132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A673228E2AF311DEA519F806A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b MIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search